Peopling the Russian periphery
Subtitle: borderland colonization in Eurasian history
By: edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader and Willard Sunderland.
Contributors: Breyfogle, Nicholas B., 1968-; Schrader, Abby M.; Sunderland, Willard, 1965-
Series: Basees/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415418805; 9780203933763
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Russia -- History; Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- History; Russia -- Territorial expansion -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Russian colonizations : an introduction / Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland; title: Claiming Siberia : colonial possession and property holding in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Valerie Kivelson; title: Containment vs. colonization : Muscovite approaches to settling the steppe / Brian J. Boeck; title: Grant, settle, negotiate : military servitors in the middle Volga region / Matthew P. Romaniello; title: Agriculture and the environment on the steppes in the nineteenth century / David Moon; title: The "ethic of empire" on the Siberian borderland : the peculiar case of the "rock people," 1791-1878 / Andrei A. Znamenski; title: Resettling people, unsettling the empire : migration and the challenge of governance, 1861-1917 / Charles Steinwedel; title: Progress or peril : migrants and locals in Russian Tashkent, 1906-14 / Jeff Sahadeo; title: Acclimatization, the shifting science of settlement / Cassandra Cavanaugh; title: The aesthetic of Stalinist planning and the world of the special villages / Lynne Viola; title: "Those who hurry to the Far East" : readers, dreamers, and volunteers / Elena Shulman; title: The "planet of one hundred languages" : ethnic relations and Soviet identity in the virgin lands / Michaela Pohl; title: Colonizing Eurasia / Alfred J. Rieber.